The world currently spends about €7.6 billion per year on subscriptions to academic journals according to one report. If all journal articles in the world were published in journals like PLOS One, we would spend €2.6 billion on publishing. Compared with today’s expenditures, humanity would save €5 billion every year.
Graduate students struggling with the stresses of their work and lives can tap into multiple avenues of support.
Why is it so frustrating and difficult to talk about scholarly-communication reform, and why do those conversations seem to involve virtually all members of the scholcomm ecosystem?
Has teaching been the poor cousin of research for too long?
Governments need to tighten regulation if the sharing of clinical-trial data is to succeed.
A science writer challenges the sceptics community to move beyond tackling just ‘easy’ issues.
Evolve governance structures, practices and metrics to accelerate innovation in an era of digital connectivity, writes Martin Curley.
Academic and entrepreneurial communities battle over bills to boost the research set-aside for SBIR
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
A two-day sprint event bringing together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe.
According to the SNSF, 40% of scientific publications produced with the support of public funding are openly accessible, which makes Switzerland “progressive” compared with other countries.
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
Piece reflecting the opinions of researchers, funders, and journals.
As part of our Event Data work we’ve been investigating where DOI resolutions come from.
Being open about failure is one thing, but we must also look at how we define success, says Shahidha Bari
Revisiting the past can help to inform ideas of the present: science without consensus would be chaos. But the price of consensus is eternal vigilance against complacency, and a willingness to contemplate the road otherwise not travelled.
Drug researcher David Nutt discusses brain-imaging studies with hallucinogens and how he needed to crowdfund the resources to analyse the data.
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Like junior doctors, early career biomedical researchers have an issue with contracts (or lack of them). So why don’t we strike too?
Google believes there's a scientist in all of us, so it's launching a new app that turns your phone into a powerful little research lab.
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…
